Bouncy Castle wrote:Considering it's a half hour show in the States, with commercial breaks, it's actually only about 24 minutes on BBC.

Actually, the show's on Showtime, a premium movie channel, so there are no commercial. If it's shorter than 30 minutes or so, you're probably getting a version that was bowlderdized for reshowing on commercial TB, with six minutes arbitrarily chopped out to accommodate commercials.